Author: davidwong

David Wong has updated the Lovecraft tradition and infused it with humor that rather than lessening the horror, increases it dramatically. Every time I set the book down down, I was wary that something really was afoot, that there were creatures I couldn’t see, and that because I suspected this, I was next. Engaging, comic, and terrifying.– Joe Garden, Features Editor, The Onion“Wong is like a … Onion“Wong is like a mash-up of Douglass Adams and Stephen King… ‘page-turner’ is an understatement.”–Don Coscarelli, director, Phantasm I-V, Bubba Ho-tep“That rarest of things–a genuinely scary story.”–David Wellington, author of Monster Island, Vampire…

From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes. WARNING: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR. You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of … fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection — the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That’s just as well, since the…